The Mic is Silent, Phillies Fans | Harry Kalas is No More

Phillies Broadcaster Harry Kalas Dies at 73

Our lives are precious. We may think there will be time enough to borrow what we need, to take personal loans of life, love and fulfillment, but we should never deceive ourselves into thinking that the power to live our dreams rests in hands apart from our own.

Harry Kalas lived his dream, and he will forever have the love of sports fans to show for it.

Tracee Hamilton reports for the Washington Post that Philadelphia Phillies baseball and NFL Films broadcaster Harry Kalas passed out in the press box at Nationals Park and was later pronounced dead at George Washington University Hospital. He was 73 years old.

He was preparing to broadcast a game

“Major League Baseball has lost one of the great voices of our generation,” Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. “Baseball announcers have a special bond with their audience, and Harry represented the best of baseball not only to the fans of the Phillies, but to fans everywhere.”

The game will go on, which is what those close to Kalas believe he would have wanted.

Kalas had missed most of 2009 spring training after having what Phillies team officials called a “minor medical procedure” performed.

You’ve heard his voice

Kalas had broadcast Phillies games in his distinctive, soothing baritone since 1971. He had been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002. Aside from his baseball work, he narrated for NFL Films, broadcast the annual “Puppy Bowl” for Animal Planet did lent his voice to Campbell’s Chunky Soup commercials. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "The Mic is Silent, Phillies Fans | Harry Kalas is No More"